associated country — a third country which is party to an agreement with the Union that allows for its participation in the Programme, in accordance with Article 6 (1)

blending operations — actions supported by the Union budget, including within blending facilities pursuant to point (6) of Article 2 of the Financial Regulation, combining non-repayable forms of support, and/or financial instruments from the Union budget with repayable forms of support from development institutions or other public finance institutions, as well as from commercial finance institutions and commercial investors (2)

crisis-relevant products — products, tools and substances that are necessary, in the context of a health crisis, for the prevention, diagnosis or treatment of a disease and its consequences, or for the monitoring and the epidemiological surveillance of diseases and infections, including, but not limited to, medicinal products, such as vaccines and their intermediates, active pharmaceutical ingredients and raw materials, as well as medical devices and hospital and medical equipment, such as ventilators, protective clothing and equipment, diagnostic materials and tools, personal protective equipment, disinfectants and their intermediary products, and the raw materials necessary for their production (4)

emergency support — a needs-based emergency response that complements the response of the affected Member States and is aimed at preserving life, preventing and alleviating human suffering, and maintaining human dignity, wherever the need arises as a result of serious cross-border threats to health (12)

European Reference Networks (ERNs) — the networks referred to in Article 12 of Directive 2011/24/EU (6)

health crisis — a crisis or serious incident arising from a threat of human, animal, plant, food, biological, chemical, environmental or unknown origin, which has a public health dimension and which requires urgent action by authorities (3)

health determinants — a range of factors that influence the health status of a person, such as behaviour-related, biological, socio-economic and environmental factors (11)

Health in All Policies — an approach to the development, implementation and review of public policies, regardless of the sector, whereby the health implications of decisions are taken into account, and which seeks to achieve synergies and to avoid harmful health impacts being caused by such policies, in order to improve the health of the population and health equity (10)

legal entity — a natural person, or a legal person created and recognised as such under national, Union or international law which has legal personality and which can, acting in its own name, exercise rights and be subject to obligations, or an entity without legal personality as referred to in point (c) of Article 197(2) of the Financial Regulation (7)

One Health approach — a multisectoral approach which recognises that human health is connected to animal health and to the environment, and that actions to tackle threats to health must take into account those three dimensions (5)

serious cross-border threat to health — a life-threatening or otherwise serious hazard to health of biological, chemical, environmental or unknown origin which spreads or entails a significant risk of spreading across the national borders of Member States, and which may necessitate coordination at Union level in order to ensure a high level of human health protection (9)

third country — a country that is not a Member State of the European Union (8)